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US10598496B2
US10598496B2 US15/492,419 US201715492419A US10598496B2 US 10598496 B2 US10598496 B2 US 10598496B2 US 201715492419 A US201715492419 A US 201715492419A US 10598496 B2 US10598496 B2 US 10598496B2
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S1/02—Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith using radio waves
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    • G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
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    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S1/02—Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith using radio waves
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  • the present invention relates to a local navigation system, particularly for use or for local environments as for example buildings, shopping malls, airports or fair locations, particularly locations where GSM data or GPS signals or other wireless navigation methods are difficult to receive, mostly indoor applications.
  • beacons For facilitating indoor navigation, beacons have been used in connection with a centralized passenger transport and/or navigation system which leads the user through the local environments, often in connection with the ride in a device of said passenger transport system.
  • the disadvantage of these known solutions is that on one hand, each user is registered in the centralized system of the local environment so that he does not travel anonymous through the local environment.
  • Another problem is the wiring that is necessary to connect the different beacons in the local environment with a central system.
  • the local navigation system comprises a plurality of beacons located in a local environment and being configured to send signals specified to different routes in said local environment; a plurality of mobile devices each of them comprising a client control means, a wireless communication link configured to receive the signals sent by the beacons and an output means, e.g. display or loudspeaker, configured to output/display navigation guide data established by the client control means.
  • the client control means is configured to process the signals received via the wireless communication link and to process this data into navigation guide data played on an output means of the mobile device, e.g the display or the loudspeaker.
  • Each route in the local environment is assigned a unitary ID.
  • each beacon is configured to be located in one specific location of the local environment along at least one of said routes whereby each beacon is configured to send the ID of at least one of the routes passing along its specific location.
  • each beacon is configured to send the IDs of all routes passing along its specific location.
  • each beacon is configured to send the IDs of all routes passing along its specific location.
  • the user of the local navigation system enters a destination into an input device of the local navigation system which could for example be a destination operating panel of the local navigation system and/or passenger transport system of the local environment and/or a destination list displayed on the display of the mobile device based on an application launched on the mobile device.
  • the client control means displays a list of the available destinations in the local environment after having contacted at least once a data source for the available destinations in the local environment, e.g. via internet.
  • the destination data has to be transferred to the mobile device, e.g. via a wireless short range transmission link, e.b. infra-red, Bluetooth® or ultra-sound.
  • a wireless short range transmission link e.b. infra-red, Bluetooth® or ultra-sound.
  • the input of the destination in the local navigation system leads to the input of the chosen destination into the mobile device.
  • the client control means correlates a route ID with the chosen destination.
  • the client control means is configured to provide said navigation guide data, e.g. via display or loudspeaker of the mobile device in interaction with the beacons sending said route ID of the chosen location.
  • the use of a loudspeaker to provide the navigation guide data for the user also enables the guide of handicapped people through the local environment.
  • the beacons can be provided as stand-alone units not needing any con nection to a centralized part of the navigation system or to a common power supply so that an afterwards installation of such a navigation system is easy, e.g. during modernization of a local environment.
  • the client control means is able via the signals transmitted by the beacons along the route to give a navigation guide to the user, e.g. to give the direction of the further route and/or to indicate the current position of the user on a graphically displayed route.
  • the beacons can be located at a crossing on corridor walls or ceilings going to the right, to the left and heading straight ahead so that the client control means gets the direction of the further travel from the location of the beacon sending the route ID of the chosen destination.
  • the beacon also sends guide data correlated to a route ID so that each route ID signal is accompanied by a joined guide message as for example right, left, straight ahead, elevator up, elevator down, etc. Via this additional guide data sent by the beacon, the client control means is able to obtain the direction of the travel independent of the location of a beacon at a crossing.
  • each beacon sends all route IDs of the routes passing the specific location of the beacon.
  • This solution has the advantage that no central control of the beacons is necessary but they all run on their own.
  • the required data for the client control means to obtain the destinations and routes available at the local environment can be provided either by a centralized destination control system or passenger transport system of the local environment or via other even external sources, for example a server connected to a local area network, particularly internet. Accordingly, a local navigation system can be established in a local environment without needing any central administrative or control units in the local environment.
  • each beacon is configured as a stand-alone unit comprising its own power supply.
  • the power supply is an accumulator which can be preferably exchanged after a certain time by service operators. It is even possible to enable each beacon to send a status signal of its power supply so that service operators can walk along the routes and check the status of each beacon as to replace weak accumulators.
  • the beacon can be a unit which is able to send data, it could also be a RFID device with a sufficient range which does not need an own power supply.
  • the beacons can also be realized as transmitters which can send but also receive data from the mobile devices, e.g. confirmation of the signal use during navigation.
  • the beacons are configured to send along with the route ID a beacon ID which could be processed by the client control means of the mobile device to indicate the user's position on the route in the displayed navigation guide data.
  • the client control means can also be used by the client control means to provide absolute route length, e.g. the lengths of the route portions being passed and lying ahead of the user.
  • the beacon has preferably a memory for the IDs of the routes passing said specific location of the beacons. These IDs could for example be stored in an EPROM of the beacon before it is located at its specific location in the local environment. If additionally to the route IDs, also the beacon ID or guide data is to be transmitted, then the memory preferably also provides portions for these other data types.
  • the client control means comprises a list of the destinations available in the local environment and a list of corresponding routes to said destinations, whereby the client control means is configured to display at least a part of said route leading to a chosen destination in interaction with the signals sent by the beacons, i.e. the route IDs or the route IDs combined with the beacon ID and/or additional guide data.
  • the signals of the beacons for the route to a chosen destination is preferably processed by the client control means to indicate the current location of the user on said route which facilitates the navigation for the user particularly in a wide-spread local environment as e.g. an airport.
  • the signals i.e. the route ID, beacon ID and eventually guide data, is transmitted preferably in form of infrared signals or broadcast signals, particularly Bluetooth®.
  • the signals should cover only a short range of possibly not more than 5 to 15 m.
  • the local navigation system comprises a centralized navigation system control means located in the local environment comprising a destination control system which handles the destinations and corresponding routes in said local environment.
  • This destination control system is for example able to coordinate the navigation of the user in the local environment in line with the use of different kinds of passenger transport systems and passenger conveyor systems in the local environment as e.g. elevators and escalators.
  • a control communication link is provided between the navigation system control means and the beacons whereby the destination control system obtains destinations chosen by users of the local environment, preferably via destination operating panels of the passenger transport system and whereby the navigation system control means is configured to activate only those beacons to send a route ID which are located on a route to a chosen destination, i.e. to a destination which has been chosen by a user of the local environment.
  • the transmission of data by beacons in the local environment can be reduced to a minimum which reduces the complete level of signal transmission in the local environment.
  • This topic could be essential in health care locations as for example in hospitals and rehab institutions.
  • each beacon has an essentially reduced task of sending multiple route IDs which is advantageous for the duty cycle of an internal power supply of the beacon.
  • the local navigation system comprises a data exchange link between the destination control means of the navigation system control means at the local environment and the client control means of the mobile device, particularly a local area network, particularly internet. Via this data exchange link, the mobile device is able to get the available destinations in the local environment eventually together with the route IDs and possibly other processing data which could be installed as an App on the mobile device.
  • the beacons located in a more central part of the local environment send much more route IDs than the beacons which are nearer to the destinations in different parts of the local environment.
  • a beacon is in a central passage, it is possible that it sends 100 route IDs e.g. in a cycle of 5 seconds. This means that each second the beacon sends 20 route IDs which is no problem with respect to the technical realization of the beacon.
  • At least a part of said beacons are bidirectional transmitters and are configured to sense the arrival of a mobile device at the chosen destination point. Via this means, the navigation system knows when the user has reached the chosen destination point so that the activated beacons can again be switched off (in a centralized solution).
  • the activated beacons are configured to stop sending the corresponding route IDs after a preset time if no arrival of the mobile device at the chosen destination point is detected.
  • the beacons do not continue sending the route ID of a chosen destination if the user meanwhile has stopped the navigation and is not further pursuing his way to his chosen destination.
  • FIG. 1 shows a f a local environment with beacons located in the corridors of said local environment
  • FIG. 2 a schematic diagram showing the data transmission of destination and route data to a client control means of a mobile device via internet
  • FIG. 3 a centralized local navigation system where the beacons are connected to a navigation system control means located in the local environment.
  • FIG. 1 shows a local environment, i.e. a shopping mall 10 comprising a number of locations, particularly stores 12 and corridors 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 in between these stores.
  • the local environment 10 also has an entrance 28 on the right side in the drawing.
  • Spread all over the local environment 10 e.g. a shopping mall, are beacons 30 a - 30 y .
  • Each of said beacons 30 a - 30 y transmits the route IDs of all routes passing the specific location where the respective beacon is located in the local environment 10 . Let assume a user wants to get from the entrance 28 to the location x in the vicinity of the beacon 30 a , then the route ID of said destination x may be also x.
  • beacons located on the route to the destination x are sending the route ID “x”, which beacons are beginning from the entrance 28 to the destination x the beacon 30 q , 30 p , 30 h , 30 e , 30 b , 30 a .
  • These six beacons send the route ID x so that a user which is entering the local environment 10 at the entrance 28 can be guided via his mobile device from the entrance 28 to the destination x.
  • the client control means which has obtained the destination and/or the route ID in the local environment 10 either from an input in the mobile device or from a destination operating panel of a navigation system or transport system in the local environment is able to discriminate the received signals from the beacons to only consider those beacons which send the route ID “x”.
  • the mobile device Via the arrangement of the corresponding beacons 30 q , 30 p , 30 h , 30 e , 30 b , 30 a along the route to the destination x, the mobile device is easily able to track the route to the destination which facilitates for the user any kind of indoor navigation.
  • the beacons in the main corridor 24 send the most route IDs as each beacon has to send the IDs of all routes passing the specific location of the beacon in the local environment. Accordingly, the more centralized located beacons send a lot more IDs than the beacons which are more remote from central locations and which are more probably nearer to the destination. This can be easily shown in the drawing, which shows four further destinations v, w, y, z. In this case the beacon 30 q sends the IDs “v”, “w”, “x” and “y”.
  • the beacons 30 p , 30 h and 30 e send the IDs “x” and “y”, the beacon 30 s send the IDs “v” and “w”, the beacons 30 v and 30 y send the ID “v”, the beacon 30 t sends the ID “w”, the beacons 30 b and 30 a send the ID “x” and the beacon 30 d sends the ID “y”.
  • the route ID of a destination may differ from the name of the destination.
  • the ID may have any signal format which is readable by the data processing means.
  • all the beacons 30 a - 30 y can also be connected to a centralized navigation system control means located in the local environment.
  • the navigation system control means can for example activate only those beacons which are leading to the chosen destination, i.e. in the embodiment of FIG. 1 for the destination x the beacons 30 q , 30 p , 30 h , 30 e , 30 b and 30 a .
  • the disadvantage of this system is that a wire connection between the beacons and the central navigation system control means is necessary. But on the other hand, the overall transmission of the beacons is essentially reduced with respect to the system, where the beacons work as stand-alone units and send all the route IDs of the routes passing the specific location of the beacons.
  • FIG. 2 shows a very simple way of providing the client control means of the mobile device with destination or route data which enables the mobile device, particularly an application (App) launched at the mobile device, to perform the navigation in the local environment 10 with the aid of the beacons 30 a - 30 y .
  • the local environment 10 comprises a server 40 of the local navigation system which comprises a destination control system 42 .
  • This server 40 is connected to the internet 44 such that a mobile device 46 of the user is able to download an App for the navigation in the local environment as well as the available destinations provided in the local environment along with the correlated routes.
  • FIG. 3 shows a navigation system control means 50 which is also a control means of a local passenger transport system connected with a destination control system 52 , connected with a destination operating panel (DOP) 53 , which destination control system 52 optionally comprises further a wireless data exchange means 54 , for example a broadcasting system, which interacts with a wireless data exchange means 56 of the mobile device 46 .
  • DOP destination operating panel
  • the destination control system 52 of the local navigation system can be optionally connected to the internet 44 to which the mobile device 46 can be connected.
  • the navigation system control means 50 is further connected to an input/output interface 58 which is via a serial bus 60 connected to the beacons 30 a - 30 y as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the local navigation system is here correlated with a passenger transport system with passenger transport devices as escalators 49 and elevators 51 so that the passenger is guided through the local environment via the escalators and elevators, whereby beacons can be placed in connection with these passenger transport devices, e.g. in the elevator car.
  • the mobile device 46 comprises a touchscreen 62 via which the user is able to input a destination in the local environment 10 which has been displayed by an App launched on the mobile device 46 or which is obtained via the data exchange link 54 and 56 between the destination control system 52 and the mobile device 46 .
  • the navigation system control means 50 activates via the input/output interface 58 the beacons 30 q , 30 p , 30 h , 30 e , 30 b , 30 a which are leading to a chosen destination x so that only these beacons are transmitting the route ID as navigation signal considered by the client control means of the mobile device 46 .
  • This centralized navigation system enables an easy and unambiguous navigation of a user even in a very wide distributed local environment whereby the emitted transmission of all beacons is minimized which could be important in hospitals and rehab centers or in other healthcare locations.
  • the invention is not delimited to the above-mentioned embodiments but can be varied within the scope of the appended patent claims.

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